Probably the most influential greedy Jewish caricature after Shakespeare’s Shylock is Charles Dickens’ Scrooge. And their ubiquity doesn’t negate their potential harmfulness. Stewart has since clarified that he wasn’t calling Rowling personally antisemitic, nor does he think the “Harry Potter” books and movies - which he loves “probably too much for a gentleman of my considerable age” - require any changes. In a December podcast episode, comedian Jon Stewart summed up the argument succinctly: “Have you ever seen a 'Harry Potter' movie? Have you ever seen the scenes in Gringotts bank? Do you know what those folks who run the bank are? Jews!” Stewart then pointed out the similarities between the goblins and the caricatures of antisemitic texts like the infamous “Protocols of the Elders of Zion.” But critics have been pointing out for years that the hook-nosed, greedy goblin bankers who run Gringotts Wizarding Bank look a lot like the hook-nosed, greedy Jewish caricatures that have been a hallmark of antisemitic propaganda from the Middle Ages to Der Stürmer.
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